A retired GFX maker, He still plays, his name is Pix200 if I don't remember wrong, and I think his average profit per avatar (Before they made animated pngs available) would probably be 40-50 per weekly auction. I think the highest he earned on one piece in the auction was somewhere between 120-150 fsp, so yeah, I'm pretty sure he got paid enough . But he doesn't make GFX anymore, maybe for his friends or guilds, but not on orders or auctions. He also doesn't teach people, so yeah, there's no point in trying to get him to make something, he's a bit stubborn on that topic, but that's alright, we got other GFX makers too, so he doesn't take all the profits.
Just to clarify, the amount that someone was paid for a piece isnt a measure of the artists skill. Art from a buyers stand point is completely subjective. A hundred people could give you a hundred different interpretations of the the same painting. Each one appraising it differently.
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